US EditionSir Ed Davey rides hobby horse at local election campaign launch in Oxfordshire
- On March 31, Sir Ed Davey launched the Liberal Democrats' local election campaign in Oxfordshire, aiming to replace the Conservatives as the party of Middle England.
- The Liberal Democrats are seeking to capitalize on discontent with both the Labour party and the Conservative party, aiming to attract voters in areas such as the Home Counties, Cambridgeshire, and Oxfordshire.
- The Lib Dems are campaigning on local issues such as the environment, sewage, health, social care, and potholes, while also opposing Labour's VAT on private schools and extension of inheritance tax to large farms, and advocating for a new customs union with the EU but not a second referendum.
- Sir Ed Davey stated that the Conservatives are moving away from their values and not standing up to Donald Trump, while Nigel Farage's Reform UK is too busy fighting amongst themselves, and Kemi Badenoch derided the Lib Dems for focusing on local issues like fixing church roofs.
- With elections to 24 councils and mayoral authorities on May 1, the Liberal Democrats aim to overtake the Conservatives as the second-largest party in local government, targeting 20 Tory-run council areas and hoping to gain seats in the 'Blue Wall' where the Conservatives lost 60 seats in the last election.
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Lib Dems launch local election campaign with claim they can surpass Tories as second largest party in local government
Local elections are set to take place on 1 May 2025. Each of the parties are starting to launch their campaigns, and today it was the Liberal Democrats’ turn. Launching the campaign, the Lib Dem leader Ed Davey indicated that his party intends to build on its success in last year’s general election by making further inroads into Conservative areas. Davey said that the Lib Dems could both become the ‘party of Middle England’ and ‘overtake the Con…
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